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Secondary Infertility 

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• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> In Treatment >> Tim – Interview 09 >> Tim found it distressing to watch his wife’s egg collection.

Tim is Carol’s husband (08), and they have been trying to start a family together for 8 years.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Stopped treatment/living without children >> Sally – Interview 19 >> Sally talked about how her treatment failure felt like a distant memory. She felt she had a happier marriage and less stressful life.

Sally had treatment with donor sperm but it was unsuccessful. She and her husband live happily without children.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Successful after Treatment >> Catherine – Interview 04 >> Catherine knew that her fertility was likely to start declining after the age of thirty.

Catherine was diagnosed with unexplained infertility. She has a son and daughter conceived with IVF.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Pregnant >> Phil – Interview 31 >> Phil and his wife decided to try an egg sharing scheme to help with the costs of treatment. They found it a stressful experience and eventually withdr

Phil had been through successful IVF with his wife, Karen (Interview 32) after she had sterilisation treatment.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Impact on relationships >> Impact on relationships

Impact on relationships

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Successful after Treatment >> Mary – Interview 06 >> Mary’s work as a lawyer was difficult because she had frequent bleeding through her pregnancy.

Mary conceived her daughter and twin boys through IVF.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Pregnant >> Brian – Interview 22 >> Infertility put enormous stress on Brian’s marriage because of his guilty feel that the infertility was his “fault”.

Brian and his wife were given a 3% chance of getting pregnant. After one round of IVF with ICSI, which was unsuccessful, they conceived naturally.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> In Treatment >> Carol – Interview 08 >> Carol had not wanted to tell her work about her treatment and so found it very stressful juggling her treatment appointments.

Carol had been trying to start a family for 8 years, and had been through 5 cycles of IVF, without success.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> In Treatment >> Carol – Interview 08 >> Carol found the uncertainty of her IUI cycle very difficult to cope with.

Carol had been trying to start a family for 8 years, and had been through 5 cycles of IVF, without success.

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Intrauterine insemination (IUI) >> Intrauterine insemination (IUI)

Intrauterine insemination (IUI)

• Pregnancy & children >> Infertility >> Stopped treatment/living without children >> Maggie – Interview 10 >> Looking back, Maggie wondered whether her clinic had been as scientific as they could have been in pinpointing her ovulation.

Maggie and her husband had unexplained infertility. They went through IUI but decided to stop treatment before proceeding to IVF